Results Of Search: Collaborative Research In The Humanities

Updated July 22, 2014

COLLABORATIVE FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES OPEN TO FACULTY IN THE HUMANITIES and HUMANITIES-ORIENTED SOCIAL SCIENCES

It is our hope that this list of collaborative grant and fellowship opportunities and will help you to determine which external agencies might fund your collaborative project.

To navigate, keep the document in layout view, scroll to the table of contents, then click on the page number for the program you wish to review. This will take you directly to that entry. If you then wish to learn more, click on the agency’s website address (URL), which you will find near the bottom of the entry. If clicking doesn’t work, copy the URL, paste it into the address line of your web browser, and type return.

Before starting any application, check the agency website. Humanities and area studies centers sometimes have shifting themes and agency programs; application requirements, deadlines, and focus areas are subject to change. Verify deadlines and other critical information by visiting the sponsoring institution’s website or contacting the agency via e-mail or telephone prior to beginning an application. This is especially true for agencies that had not posted new deadlines when we updated this list (we’ve noted such cases on the list).

Most agencies have deadlines only once each year and take from three to six months to announce results. Therefore, think long-term when planning your grant/fellowship application strategies. Preparing a viable proposal takes effort, organization, and effective time management, so please do give yourself the time you will need to develop a competitive proposal. For fellowships, that means starting the process at least eight weeks before the deadline, preferably longer; for institutional proposals it is at least six months before the deadline. Please also keep in mind that the internal deadline is one workweek (five working days) prior to the agency’s deadline.

Although this opportunities list is extensive, it is not exhaustive. If you know of sources we have not included, which you believe will appeal to a broad spectrum of humanities and social sciences faculty members, please let us know. We’re always seeking to add viable new funding sources to this list.

Please contact us to discuss the funding possibilities that seem to meet your needs. We will be happy to work with you to develop a personal grant development plan and application timeline. We look forward to helping you to develop your external fellowship and grant applications.

Humanities Grant Development Office Kathy Porsch, Grant Development Officers [email protected] - 785/864-7834

John Biersack, Research Development Specialist or Scott Knowles, Research Development Specialist [email protected] • 785/864-7834

http://www.hallcenter.ku.edu/humanities-grant-development-office TABLE OF CONTENTS Internal Collaborative Funding Opportunities (KU)

The Commons Interdisciplinary Research Initiative in Nature and Culture Seed Grant The Commons at the University of Kansas explores nature and culture and their reciprocal impacts across the sciences, arts and humanities. In so doing, the Commons intends to be a catalyst for bold innovation, unconventional thinking and unexpected discoveries. The Commons Interdisciplinary Research Initiative in Nature and Culture is a KU-wide, competitive seed-grant program to nurture and develop interdisciplinary, collaborative research ideas and extramural grant proposals. The Commons seed grant program targets concepts and their interdisciplinary synthesis, not the generation of preliminary data. Seed grant activities may include exploratory research workshops, studios, colloquia, symposia, scholarly travel and visits, and other activities that advance interdisciplinary research ideas, collaborations and extramural proposals. Proposals that create and integrate ideas across the arts, sciences and humanities will be most competitive. Research partnerships across KU units and between KU and other universities and institutions are strongly encouraged. The outcome of a seed grant should be the development and submission of a substantive research grant proposal to an external funding entity. URL: http://www.thecommons.ku.edu/seedgrants.html DEADLINE: September 10 (Pre-Proposal) (last known deadline) October 19 (Full submission) (last known deadline)

Hall Center for the Humanities Collaborative Research Seed Grant The CRSG program is part of a Hall Center initiative to promote and facilitate collaborative research in the humanities and humanities-oriented social sciences. The goal is to encourage KU faculty members conducting humanities-oriented research to stretch beyond the traditional single investigator model and fully engage with at least one partner in a collaborative research endeavor. Teams should propose original research projects designed to produce results neither investigator could easily accomplish alone. The immediate aim of this program is to fund the early stages of collaborative research projects and enhance their competitiveness for extramural grants. Successful collaborative research projects will illustrate the potential that collaboration holds for humanities scholarship. The Hall Center will provide up to $15,000 to support intensive collaboration on a substantive original humanities research project. Applicants may request the full $15,000 but may be awarded a smaller amount. URL: http://www.hallcenter.ku.edu/~hallcenter/grants/faculty_support/single.shtml?slug=collaborative- research-seed-grant2014 DEADLINE: March 31 (last known deadline)

Hall Center for the Humanities Scholars on Site Grant This program provides up to $10,000 and encourages "on-site" research projects with community partners to create public scholarship that will 1) support community priorities and outcomes through the joint conceptualization and execution of humanities research, 2) assist community organizations in demonstrating the relevance of the humanities to local communities, and 3) generate and demonstrate best practices in the area of humanities-community research collaborations. A community partner organization can be anywhere in the world and serve any purpose, as long as the research component is within the humanities or humanities-oriented social sciences. The result should be a synthesis of academic humanities and public knowledge that strengthens both scholarship and community. URL: http://www.hallcenter.ku.edu/~hallcenter/grants/scholars_on_site/scholars_on_site.shtml DEADLINE: March 24th (last known deadline)

3 External Collaborative Funding Opportunities: Institutional Grants, Contracts, and Fellowships Note: These applications must be submitted through the University of Kansas Center for Research (KUCR). The Humanities Grant Development Office will serve as your liaison with KUCR throughout the process.

American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) The following are ACLS fellowships and awards that focus on collaboration and digital projects. Collaborative Research Awards These awards support collaborative research in the humanities and related social sciences. Collaborations need not be interdisciplinary or inter-institutional, but must involve at least two scholars; applicants at the same institution must demonstrate why local funding is insufficient to support the project. It is hoped that projects of successful applicants will help demonstrate the range and value of both collaborative research and inquiry into the humanities, and model how such collaboration may be carried out successfully. Collaborations that involve the participation of assistant and associate faculty members, or that of scholars of different kinds of institutions, are particularly encouraged. The award is for a total period of up to 24 months. The award includes stipends to allow up to an academic year’s leave from teaching for participants, as well as up to $20,000 in collaboration costs to facilitate face-to-face virtual interactions. Awards amounts will range from $60,000 to $140,000 in total, depending on the nature and duration of the collaboration, the kinds of expenses projected to carry out the research, and the number of participants. Salary- replacement stipends are based on academic rank: up to $35,000 for Assistant professor and career equivalent; up to $40,000 for Associate Professor and career equivalent; and up to $60,000 for full Professor and career equivalent. URL: http://www.acls.org/grants/Default.aspx?id=3154&linkidentifier=id&itemid=3154 DEADLINE: September 24 (last known deadline)

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation offers grants in three major program areas: Global Development, Global Health, and the United States. Each program area lists the current funding priorities; please check website for details. The Foundation encourages large-scale, sustainable, collaborative projects. URL: http://www.gatesfoundation.org/programs/Pages/overview.aspx DEADLINE: Varies, please see website

Ford Foundation The Ford Foundation offers grants to institutions in the following areas of interest: Democratic and Accountable Government, Human Rights, Social Justice and Philanthropy, Economic Fairness, Metropolitan Opportunity, Sustainable Development, Educational Opportunity and Scholarship, Freedom of Expression, and Sexuality and Reproductive Health Rights. Interested applicants are asked to submit an online grant inquiry. Large-scale, sustainable, collaborative projects are encouraged by the foundation. URL: http://www.fordfoundation.org/ DEADLINE: Rolling

The John Templeton Foundation The Templeton Foundation offers grants in the core area of “Science and the Big Questions,” including Human Sciences (anthropology, sociology, political science and psychology) and Philosophy and Theology. URL: http://www.templeton.org/ DEADLINE: April 1 and October 1 (Letters of Inquiry)

4 Kansas Humanities Council The Kansas Humanities Council is looking for partners across the state that have creative ideas for sharing the humanities with their own community. This could be projects like a short film, museum exhibition, a plan to preserve a collection of historic photographs or quilts, a series of podcasts, or even an oral history project to capture the voices from your community's past. URL: http://kansashumanities.org/kansas-grants/ DEADLINE: February 29, May 30, and October 3

The Lumina Foundation Lumina Foundation supports efforts to increase awareness of the benefits of higher education, improve student access to and preparedness for college, improve student success in college and increase productivity across the higher education system. Such efforts include: Work that stimulates broad-based and systemic change, helping the Foundation to accelerate progress on Goal 2025; Work that focuses on promoting educational access and success for underserved populations, especially low-income students, students of color, first-generation college students and adult learners; Work to create a more informed environment that is willing to adopt more effective practices and policy reform around issues of access and success; Programs that demonstrate capacity for long-term growth and sustainability; Research and/or evaluation that results in new knowledge and evidence to strengthen opportunities for postsecondary access and success; Work that addresses increasing efficiency, effectiveness and productivity to more cost-effectively educate a significantly larger share of the U.S. population; Collaborative work among established organizations with broad, large-scale, interstate or national reach. Grants vary in size by their scope. The median size of a grant is approximately $250,000. The usual duration for a grant is one to three years. URL: http://www.luminafoundation.org/grants.html DEADLINE: Through September (Letters of Inquiry)

National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER), Title VIII National Research Contract Competition Research Contracts support collaborative projects involving multiple post-doctoral scholars, or individuals with comparable research skills who do not hold PhDs. To be eligible, projects must include at least one U.S.-based scholar or researcher in the humanities and social sciences and one or more scholars or individuals with comparable skills in any country of Eurasia or East-Central Europe. The maximum award is $70,000. Contracts provide funding to scholars or researchers via institutional awards and involve different application forms and guidelines than are required for the individual fellowship competition described in the individual grants and fellowships section below. Research contracts may begin as early as October 1 and NCEEER retains right of first refusal for publication of the research resulting from the agency’s support in the journal Problems of Post-Communism. URL: http://www.nceeer.org/programs/national-research-competition.html DEADLINE: February 15

National Endowment for the Arts International Partnerships USArtists International, U.S./ Japan Creative Artists' Program, ArtsLink Residencies, Open World Cultural Leaders Program, NEA International Literary Exchanges, The Big Read International, and Presentation of Foreign Artists in the U.S. Through cooperative initiatives with other funders, the National Endowment for the Arts brings the benefit of international exchange to arts organizations, artists, and audiences nationwide. NEA's international activities increase recognition of the excellence of U.S. arts around the world and broaden the scope of experience of American artists, thereby enriching the art they create. Through partnerships with other government agencies and the private sector, the NEA fosters international creative collaboration by strengthening residency programs of foreign artists in communities across the country. Local citizens as well as the arts community benefit from the lasting international ties that result. URL: http://arts.gov/partnerships/international DEADLINE: Various, see website for individual program deadlines 5 National Endowment for the Humanities The following are NEH programs that require, encourage, or accept collaborative proposals. Bridging Cultures Through Film: International Topics This grant supports documentary films that examine international and transnational themes in the humanities. These projects are meant to spark Americans’ engagement with the broader world by exploring one or more countries and cultures outside of the United States. Proposed documentaries must be analytical and deeply grounded in humanities scholarship. The Division of Public Programs encourages the exploration of innovative nonfiction storytelling that presents multiple points of view in creative formats. The proposed film should range in length from a standard broadcast length of thirty minutes to a feature-length documentary. A wide range of topics are welcome as long as they transcend the boundaries of the United States. URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/public/bridging-cultures-through-film-international-topics DEADLINE: June 10 (last known deadline) Collaborative Research Grants These institutional grants support original research undertaken by a team of two or more scholars or research coordinated by an individual scholar that, because of its scope or complexity, requires additional staff and resources beyond the individual's salary. Eligible projects include research that significantly adds to knowledge and understanding in the humanities; conferences on topics of major importance in the humanities that will benefit ongoing research; archaeological projects that include the interpretation and communication of results (projects may encompass excavation, materials analysis, laboratory work, field reports, and preparation of interpretive monographs); translations into English of works that provide insight into the history, literature, philosophy, and artistic achievements of other cultures; and research that uses the knowledge, methods, and perspectives of the humanities to enhance understanding of science, technology, medicine, and the social sciences. These grants support full-time or part-time activities for periods of one to three years. Support is available for various combinations of scholars, consultants, and research assistants; project-related travel; fieldwork; applications of information technology; and technical support and services. All grantees are expected to communicate the results of their work to the appropriate scholarly and public audiences. URL: http://neh.gov/grants/guidelines/collaborative.html DEADLINE: December 9 (last known deadline)

DFG/NEH Bilateral Digital Humanities Program: Enriching Digital Collections These grants offer support for digitization projects in the humanities. These grants provide funding for up to three years of development in any of the following areas: new digitization projects and pilot projects; the addition of important materials to existing digitization projects; and the development of tools and infrastructure to enhance the use of digitized resources and support international digitization work. Collaboration between U.S. and German partners is a key requirement for this grant category. Each application must be sponsored by at least one eligible German individual or institution, and at least one U.S. institution, and there must be a project director from each country. URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/odh/nehdfg-bilateral-digital-humanities-program DEADLINE: September 25 (last known deadline) Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants These institutional grants are intended to foster new collaborations and advance the role of cultural repositories in online teaching, learning, and research, this program is co-sponsored by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). NEH and IMLS encourage library and museum officials as well as scholars, scientists, educational institutions, and other non-profit organizations to apply for these grants and to collaborate when appropriate. Innovation is a hallmark of this grant category. All applicants must propose an innovative approach, method, tool, or idea that has not been used before

6 in the humanities. These grants are modeled, in part, on the “high risk/high reward ” paradigm often used by funding agencies in the sciences. NEH is requesting proposals for projects that take some risks in the pursuit of innovation and excellence. Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants should result in plans, prototypes, or proofs of concept for long-term digital humanities projects prior to implementation. Two levels of awards are made in this program. Level I awards are small grants designed to fund brainstorming sessions, workshops, early alpha-level prototypes, and initial planning. Level II awards are larger grants that can be used for more fully-formed projects that are ready to start the first stage of implementation or the creation of working prototypes. URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/digitalhumanitiesstartup.html DEADLINES: September 11 Enduring Questions The NEH Enduring Questions grant program supports the development of a new course that will foster intellectual community through the study of an enduring question. This course will encourage undergraduates and teachers to grapple with a fundamental question addressed by the humanities, and to join together in a deep and sustained program of reading in order to encounter influential thinkers over the centuries and into the present day. Enduring questions are questions to which no discipline, field, or professions can lay an exclusive claim. In many cases they predate the formation of the academic disciplines themselves. Enduring questions can be tackled by reflective individuals regardless of their chosen vocations, areas of expertise, or personal backgrounds. They are questions that have more than one plausible or compelling answer. They have long held interest for young people, and they allow for a special, intense dialogue across generations. The Enduring Questions grant program will help promote such dialogue in today’s undergraduate environment. The course is to be developed by one or more (up to four) faculty members, but not team taught. Enduring Questions courses must be taught from a common syllabus and must be offered during the grant period at least twice by each faculty member involved in developing the course. The grant supports the work of a faculty member in designing, preparing, and assessing the course. URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/EnduringQuestions.html DEADLINE: September 11 Humanities Collections and Reference Resources The Humanities Collections and Reference Resources program supports projects that provide an essential foundation for scholarship, education, and public programming in the humanities. Thousands of libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations across the country maintain important collections of books and manuscripts, photographs, sound recordings and moving images, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, art and material culture, and digital objects. Funding from this program strengthens efforts to extend the life of such materials and make their intellectual content widely accessible, often through the use of digital technology. Awards are also made to create various reference resources that facilitate use of cultural materials, from works that provide basic information quickly to tools that synthesize and codify knowledge of a subject for in-depth investigation. URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/preservation/humanities-collections-and-reference-resources DEADLINE: July 21 (last known deadline) Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities These institutional grants support national or regional (multi-state) training programs on approaches in humanities computing. NEH strongly encourages applicants to develop proposals for multidisciplinary teams of co-applicants, partners, and collaborators that will offer the necessary range of intellectual, technical, and practical expertise. This program is designed to bring together humanities scholars, advanced graduate students, computer scientists, and others to learn new tools and technologies and to foster relationships for future collaborations in the humanities. Partners and collaborators may be drawn from the private and public sectors and include appropriate specialists from within and outside the US. The purpose is to increase the number of humanities scholars using

7 digital technology in their research and to broadly disseminate knowledge about advanced technology applications relevant to the humanities. The objectives are to: bring together humanities scholars and digital technology specialists from different disciplines to share ideas and methods that advance humanities research through the use of digital technologies, reflect on, interpret, and analyze new digital media, multimedia, and text-based computing technologies and integrate these into humanities research, prepare current and future generations of humanities scholars to design, develop, and use cyber-based tools and environments for research, and devise new and creative uses for technology that offer valuable models that can be applied specifically to research in the humanities. URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/IATDH.html DEADLINE: March 10 (last known deadline) National Digital Newspaper Program NDNP is creating a national, digital resource of historically significant newspapers published between 1836 and 1922, from all the states and U.S. territories. This searchable database will be permanently maintained at the Library of Congress (LC) and be freely accessible via the Internet. NEH intends to support projects in all states and U.S. territories, provided that sufficient funds allocated for this purpose are available. One organization within each U.S. state or territory will receive an award to collaborate with relevant state partners in this effort. Previously funded projects will be eligible for continued support, but the program will give priority to new projects. Applications that involve collaboration between previously funded and new projects are welcome. Such collaborations might involve, for example, arranging with current awardees to manage the creation and delivery of digital files; offering regular and ongoing consultation on managing aspects of the project; or providing formal training for project staff at an onsite institute or workshop. URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/ndnp.html DEADLINE: January 15 (last known deadline) Preservation and Access: Education and Training and Research and Development These grants help staff members of cultural institutions obtain the knowledge and skills needed to serve as effective stewards of humanities collections and educational programs that prepare the next generation of conservators and preservation professionals, as well as projects that introduce the staff of cultural institutions to new information and advances in preservation and access practices. Research and Development grants support projects that address major challenges in preserving or providing access to humanities collections and resources, including the need to find better ways to preserve materials of critical importance to the nation’s cultural heritage–from fragile artifacts and manuscripts to analog recordings and digital assets subject to technological obsolescence–and to develop advanced modes of searching, discovering, and using such materials. URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/pet.html (Education and Training) http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/PARD.html (Research and Development) DEADLINE: May 5 for Ed. & Training; May 1 for R&D (last known deadline for both) Scholarly Editions and Translations These grants support the preparation of editions of pre-existing texts and documents that are currently inaccessible or available in inadequate editions. Projects teams must include at least one editor and one other staff member. Grants typically support editions of significant literary, philosophical, and historical materials. Collaborations can involve faculty members from the same or multiple campuses. Applicants must demonstrate familiarity with the best practices recommended by the Association for Documentary Editing or the Modern Language Association Committee on Scholarly Editions. Editions must contain scholarly and critical apparatus appropriate to the subject matter and format of the edition, typically introductions and annotations that provide essential information about the form, transmission, and historical and intellectual context of the texts and documents involved. Proposals for editions of foreign language materials in the original language are eligible for funding. Proposals for editions of translated materials should be submitted to the Collaborative Research program. URL: http://neh.gov/grants/guidelines/editions.html

8 DEADLINE: December 9 (last known deadline)

Summer Seminars and Institutes These grants support faculty development programs in the humanities for K-12 school teachers and college and university teachers. NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes may be as short as two weeks or as long as six weeks. The duration of a program should allow for a rigorous treatment of its topic. URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/seminars.html DEADLINE: February 24 (last known deadline)

National Science Foundation The following competitions within NSF offer collaborative opportunities within its SBE (Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences) directorate. Research Coordination Networks (RCN) The goal of this program is to advance a field or create new directions in research or education. Innovative ideas for implementing novel networking strategies are especially encouraged. Groups of investigators will be supported to communicate and coordinate their research, training and educational activities across disciplinary, organizational, geographic and international boundaries. Proposed networking activities directed to the general RCN program should focus on a theme to give coherence to the collaboration, such as a broad research question or particular technologies or approaches. The general RCN program will provide review for proposals to participating core programs and directorates listed in the solicitation, excepting Mathematical & Physical Sciences. Proposals involving mathematical and physical scientists will be accepted under the targeted physical/life science interface track described below. Additional targeted tracks within the RCN programs are intended to foster linkages across selected directorates. URL: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=11691 DEADLINE: Rolling Science and Technology Centers: Integrative Partnerships The Science and Technology Centers (STC): Integrative Partnerships program supports innovative, potentially transformative, complex research and education projects that require large-scale, long- term awards. STCs conduct world-class research through partnerships among academic institutions, national laboratories, industrial organizations, and/or other public/private entities, and via international collaborations, as appropriate. They provide a means to undertake important investigations at the interfaces of disciplines and/or fresh approaches within disciplines. STC investments support the NSF vision of advancing discovery, innovation and education beyond the frontiers of current knowledge, and empowering future generations in science and engineering. Centers provide a rich environment for encouraging future scientists, engineers, and educators to take risks in pursuing discoveries and new knowledge. STCs foster excellence in education by integrating education and research, and by creating bonds between learning and inquiry so that discovery and creativity fully support the learning process. NSF expects STCs to demonstrate leadership in the involvement of groups traditionally underrepresented in science and engineering at all levels within the Center. To achieve their diversity objectives, STCs are expected to involve individuals from underrepresented groups as members of the Center faculty, and as students actively engaged in Center activities. STCs are strongly encouraged to form meaningful, substantive and long-term partnerships with minority-serving institutions, women's colleges and institutions that primarily serve students with disabilities, thereby providing formal connections with institutions that serve large populations of underrepresented students interested in STEM. Centers undertake activities that will facilitate knowledge transfer, i.e., the mutual exchange of scientific and technical information among the Center partners and others with the objective of disseminating and utilizing knowledge broadly in multiple sectors. URL: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5541 DEADLINE: February 3 (last known deadline) 9 U.S. Department of Education Office of Postsecondary Education Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) Programs FIPSE offers both the Comprehensive Program and several International Programs. The Comprehensive Program supports and disseminates innovative reform projects that promise to be models for improving the quality of postsecondary education and increasing student access. International Program areas include: U.S.-Brazil Higher Education Consortia Program, European Union-United States Atlantis Program, Program for North American Mobility in Higher Education, and the United States-Russia Program. URL: http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ope/fipse/index.html DEADLINE: Various, please see website for specific Program information

External Collaborative Funding Opportunities: Individual Grants and Fellowships Note: These grants an be submitted directly to the agency through the Humanities Grant Development Office

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Anneliese Maier Research Award Nominations for the research award can be made for researchers from abroad from the fields of the humanities and social sciences whose scientific achievements have been internationally recognized in their research area and from whose research collaboration with specialist colleagues in Germany a sustainable contribution is expected towards the further internationalization of the humanities and social sciences in Germany. In addition to researchers who already number among the established leaders in their subject, the award is also aimed at researchers who are not yet so advanced in their scientific careers but who are already internationally established researchers from whom a sustainable shaping of the humanities and social sciences in Germany can be expected through the prospects of long-term collaboration. Particular importance is attached to the nomination of qualified female researchers. Award winners are expected to spend a period of up to five years cooperating on a long-term research project with the nominator and / or specialist colleagues at a research institution in Germany. Nominations may be submitted by established academics in Germany. Direct applications are not accepted. Amount: 250,000 EUR. URL: http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/anneliese-maier-award.html DEADLINE: April 30

American Academy of Religion Collaborative Research Grants The AAR each year grants awards ranging from $500 to $5000 to support projects proposed by AAR members and selected by the AAR Research Grants Review Committee. These projects can be either collaborative or individual. Collaborative grants are intended to stimulate cooperative research among scholars in different institutions, with a focus on a clearly identified research project. They may also be used for interdisciplinary work with scholars outside the field of religion, especially when such work shows promise of continuing beyond the year funded. Collaborative project proposals are expected to describe plans for having the results of the research published. URL: http://www.aarweb.org/programs-services/collaborative-research-grants DEADLINE: August 1

10 American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) The following are ACLS fellowships and awards that focus on collaboration and digital projects. Comparative Perspectives on Chinese Culture and Society ACLS invites applications for grants to support collaborative work in China studies. In this cycle of competitions we are soliciting proposals in the humanities and related social sciences that adoptan explicitly cross-cultural or comparative perspective. We invite submission of projects that, for example, compare aspects of Chinese history and culture with those of other nations and civilizations, explore the interaction of these nations and civilizations, or engage in cross-cultural research on the relations among thediverse and shifting populations of China. Proposals are expected to be empirically grounded, theoretically informed, and methodologically explicit. The program will support collaborative work of three types: Planning Meetings: Grants up to $6,000 will be offered for one-day meetings to plan conferences or workshops, or for less structured explorations, e.g., brainstorming sessions; Workshops: Grants up to $15,000 will be offered for workshops designed to facilitate ongoing research on newly available or inadequately researched data or texts. Workshops are understood to last three to four days and provide an opportunity for participants to discuss and analyze new approaches and/or new sources in a seminar-like setting; Conferences: Grants up to $25,000 will be offered for formal research conferences intended to produce significant new research that will be published in a conference volume. URL: http://www.acls.org/programs/chinese-culture/ DEADLINE: October 1 Digital Innovation Fellowships This program supports digitally based research projects in all disciplines of the humanities and humanities-related social sciences. It is hoped that projects of successful applicants will help advance digital humanistic scholarship by broadening understanding of its nature and exemplifying the robust infrastructure necessary for creating further such works. ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships are intended to support an academic year dedicated to work on a major scholarly project that takes a digital form. ACLS will award up to six digital innovation Fellowships in the competition year, including projects on which two scholars are collaborating. Collaborating scholars should apply separately and indicate that their project is collaborative. Each fellowship carries a stipend of up to $60,000 towards an academic year’s leave and provides for project costs of up to $25,000. ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships are intended as salary replacement and may be held concurrently with other fellowships and grants and any sabbatical pay up to an amount equal to the candidates’ current academic year salary. URL: http://www.acls.org/grants/Default.aspx?id=508&linkidentifier=id&itemid=508 DEADLINE: September 24

Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation/ACLS Collaborative Research Grants in Buddhist Studies This program supports collaborative projects, especially those that relate different Buddhist traditions to each other or that relate scholarship on the broad Buddhist tradition to contemporary concerns in other academic fields. Applications must propose a clear plan for the collaboration with a jointly- authored, research-based scholarly product. These grants will support only projects in which all principals dedicate a significant amount of effort to the joint work. Each team member must be released from teaching and other obligations for at least three months for each academic year of the grant period. Requests to fund conferences or workshops will be considered only as part of a broader, research-based project. Conferences or meetings in themselves do not fulfill the requirement for jointly authored, research-based scholarly products. Up to $5,000 is available for workshops; up to $15,000 for conferences. The total amount of the grant cannot exceed $200,000. URL: http://www.acls.org/programs/buddhist-studies/#collab DEADLINE: October 22

11 CEC ArtsLink Projects ArtsLink Projects provides support to US artists, curators, presenters and arts organizations undertaking projects in Eastern and Central Europe, Russia, Central Asia and the Caucasus. Applicants must be working with an artist or organization in that region and projects should be designed to benefit participants and audiences in both the US and the host country. Support is provided to create new work that draws inspiration from interaction with artists and the community in the US; to establish mutually beneficial exchange of ideas and expertise between artists, arts organizations and the local community and to pursue artistic cooperation that will enrich creative or professional development or has potential to expand the community's access to the art of other cultures. ArtsLink has a cycle of alternate year deadlines according to discipline. URL: http://www.cecartslink.org/grants/artslink_projects/ DEADLINE: January 15

Fulbright NEXUS Regional Scholar Program The Fulbright Regional Network for Applied Research (NEXUS) Program will bring together a network of junior scholars, professionals and mid-career applied researchers from the United States and other Western Hemisphere nations for a series of three seminar meetings and a Fulbright exchange experience. Scholars will engage in collaborative thinking, analysis, problem-solving and multi-disciplinary research in one of three inter-related topics: Science, Technology and Innovation; Entrepreneurship; Sustainable Energy. URL: http://www.cies.org/NEXUS/ DEADLINE: April 1 (last known deadline)

National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER), Title VIII National Research Grant Competition Research Grants support collaborative projects involving multiple post-doctoral scholars, or individuals with comparable research skills who do not hold PhDs. To be eligible, projects must include at least one U.S.-based scholar or researcher in the humanities and social sciences and one or more scholars or individuals with comparable skills in any country of Eurasia or East-Central Europe. The maximum award is $70,000. Grants provide funding directly to scholars or researchers and involve different application forms and guidelines than are required for the institutional contracts competition described in the institutional grants, contracts, and fellowships section above. Research grants may begin as early as October 1 and NCEEER retains right of first refusal for publication of the research resulting from the agency’s support in the journal Problems of Post-Communism. URL: http://www.nceeer.org/programs/national-research-competition.html DEADLINE: February 15

Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain’s Ministry of Culture and United States’ Universities Symposia and Seminars. The program is designed to promote closer ties between scholarly Hispanicism in the US in the areas of humanities, social sciences, and the cultural and academic developments of Spain. Projects oriented toward the dissemination of Spanish culture throughout the academic systems of the US are reviewed for subsidy. Priority is given to those proposals of high scholarly quality which will have an important impact upon the field of Hispanicism, both regionally and nationwide. Priority will be given to those proposals of an interdisciplinary nature involving collaborative research with individuals, Spanish scholars, and academic institutions. This program is now being run out of the Ministry of Culture in Madrid. URL: http://www.mecd.gob.es/servicios-al-ciudadano-mecd/catalogo/cultura/becas-ayudas-y- subvenciones/ayudas-y-subvenciones/cooperacion/programa-hispanex-2013.html DEADLINE: April 17 (last known deadline)

12 Russell Sage Foundation The Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholars program invites scholars to its New York headquarters to investigate topics in social and behavioral sciences. The Foundation particularly welcomes groups of scholars who wish to collaborate on a specific project during their residence at Russell Sage. While the Visiting Scholars typically work on projects related to the Foundation’s current programs, a number of scholars whose research falls outside the Foundations’ active programs also participate. Each scholar is provided with an office at the Foundation, research assistance, computer and library facilities, salary support of up to $110,000 for the academic year, and a subsidized apartment nearby the Foundation offices. URL: http://www.russellsage.org/how-to-apply/apply-visiting-scholar DEADLINE: September 30

Washington University in St. Louis, Modeling Interdisciplinary Inquiry Washington University in St. Louis announces its Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship Program designed to encourage interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching across the humanities and social sciences. The program brings to Washington University new and recent PhDs who wish to strengthen their own advanced training and participate in the university’s ongoing interdisciplinary programs and seminars. Fellows will outline a plan for their own continuing research to be pursued with a senior faculty mentor from Washington University. Fellows will receive a two-year appointment with a stipend beginning at $45,800 per year. Over the course of their two-year appointment, fellows will teach three undergraduate courses and collaborate during a spring term in leading a seminar in the theory and methods of interdisciplinary research. URL: http://artsci.wustl.edu/~szwicker/mellonpostdoc/ DEADLINE: December 3

The Wenner-Gren Foundation International Collaborative Research Grants The International Collaborative Research Grant (ICRG) supports international research collaborations between two or more qualified scholars, where the principle investigators bring different and complementary perspectives, knowledge, and/or skills to the project. Supplemental funds are also available to provide essential training for academic research participants in ICRG-funding projects. By providing training funds, the grant helps build capacity in countries where anthropology may be under- resourced. Proposals must involve collaboration between two or more researchers of different nationalities who are working in different countries. Priority is given to those projects involving at least one principle investigator who is a citizen of, and is working and residing in a country where anthropology is underrepresented (country list available). The grants are for a maximum of $30,000. Under special circumstances grants can be renewed to support longer-term research projects. URL: http://www.wennergren.org/programs/international-collaborative-research-grants DEADLINE: June 1 and December 1